MAG Building Poll

[Willy Bayot]

Hi,

I am surprised that you could not register to the forum. You should be.

The estimate we gave before was for a kit made of a set of boards, not for a full PPM system with its box, stick and sensor.
Indeed, to get a differential PPM system, you need two separate instruments, one acting as fixed station and the other as mobile station.
However, it depends what you are searching for. If what you look for is made of magnetic material like iron or steel, the field gradient generated

My email is :[email protected]

Regards,
Willy

Willy,

Sorry, I was the one who posted the queries on #28 also the #33 above.

Thanks again.

Junkie

Hi Willy,

Thank you very much for the replies.

I'm very much impressed with your progress especially that you will also sell a complete system plus free software. This is good for us who don't know how to build, aside from it being time consuming. We'd rather buy something built by the experts.

Thank you also that you have option to pay using Paypal as this is very important for us who are located very far (Philippines).

On this end we are very much interested in buying your Mag. We are very ready and will wait for your go signal to sell.

By the way, hope you can email me your email address. I can't open your profile as am not a registered member. Well, I tried last month but when I follwed the link to activate my membership it won't allow me saying the link is not verified. I don't know why but I didn't bother as I can still post as 'Unresgitered'.

By the way, just for an idea/estimate, how much would the price of the Differential Mag be. Would it be double or triple with your earlier estimates?

Junkie

[Willy Bayot]

Hi,

We are now testing one of our hand-assembled board set built according to the final board layout by a professional PCB maker.
The front-end board is working well and the controller board will hopefully be tested before the end of next week.
At the same time, we have checked that the board set with its rather complex outline fits comfortably inside its box.
Next week, a set of sensor coils will be made by a professional winding company according to our specs.

We plan to start our first fully integrated system tests in lab, then in the field, in two weeks if all goes well.
After that, all depends on the results we'll get from this Alpha testing but we should then be able to populate (and possibly slightly patch) more of the first series of board sets we have in stock.
These systems will then be used for demo and Beta testing.

By the way, three persons are currently directly working on this project:
- Jim Koehler from BC, Canada
- Alexandre Tartar from North of France
- Myself from Belgium

Willy

I have received the first set of assembled and tested boards. They look perfect. Next week-end, we'll hopefully make their integration in the box and test the system with the first newly built sensor.
This is the pictures of the two main boards.
The things are progressing well, we are very happy.
Willy

[Willy Bayot]

Hi! Willy,

We are very interest with thi Mag you're building.

A couple of questions:

- Is this Proton Differential Mag?
- Does it have audio/data output? And what plotting/contouring software can be used like the previous image you posted.
- Do you sell this as complete product? (Dorry, as we do not know how to build one)
- If so how much and how do we pay you.

We are in the Philippines and if possible please email quotation and contact numbers to [email protected]

Thank you very much.

For your info, this is the same survey results as I published before on this forum but displayed by my new post_processing and plotting system (the one we intend to integrate with our PPM system and give it for free).

Willy

[Willy Bayot]

Hi! Willy,

We are very interest with thi Mag you're building.

A couple of questions:

- Is this Proton Differential Mag?
- Does it have audio/data output? And what plotting/contouring software can be used like the previous image you posted.
- Do you sell this as complete product? (Dorry, as we do not know how to build one)
- If so how much and how do we pay you.

We are in the Philippines and if possible please email quotation and contact numbers to [email protected]

Thank you very much.

Hi,

Sorry to reply so late, I missed your message.
This is the answers to your questions:
1. Yes, it can be used as single station or in differential configuration using two identical instruments synchronized on their RTC time stamps
2. It has aural feedback to detect large enough field gradients. It also stores all its results and their quality factors to a FAT-based file on Sd-Card.
3. I am currently using Surfer with which I made the pictures published on this forum but this package is awefully expensive, thus, I'm writing an integrated post-processing package based on a professional GNU plotting product using its scripting language and a C console program. This will eventually come free with the system.
4. We have indeed the intention to sell a fully integrated instrument and we are preparing our first demo systems. It will most probably be produced in small series when we have sufficient firm prospects for it.
5. We had defined a selling price for the set of fully assembled and tested electronic boards but we still have to define the price for the full instrument.
6. Payment would eventually be made through Paypal, both for reservation and for full payment.

Willy

[carthage]

Hi Willy
Great progress you have there, and glad to see more people are interested in your work.
Please keep us posted on your progress.
Bon courage.

A.K

Hi! Willy,

We are very interest with thi Mag you're building.

A couple of questions:

- Is this Proton Differential Mag?
- Does it have audio/data output? And what plotting/contouring software can be used like the previous image you posted.
- Do you sell this as complete product? (Dorry, as we do not know how to build one)
- If so how much and how do we pay you.

We are in the Philippines and if possible please email quotation and contact numbers to [email protected]

Thank you very much.

[Bill512]

Hi Willy, I am interested too

Bill

[Willy Bayot]

Hi,

We are now testing one of our hand-assembled board set built according to the final board layout by a professional PCB maker.
The front-end board is working well and the controller board will hopefully be tested before the end of next week.
At the same time, we have checked that the board set with its rather complex outline fits comfortably inside its box.
Next week, a set of sensor coils will be made by a professional winding company according to our specs.

We plan to start our first fully integrated system tests in lab, then in the field, in two weeks if all goes well.
After that, all depends on the results we'll get from this Alpha testing but we should then be able to populate (and possibly slightly patch) more of the first series of board sets we have in stock.
These systems will then be used for demo and Beta testing.

By the way, three persons are currently directly working on this project:
- Jim Koehler from BC, Canada
- Alexandre Tartar from North of France
- Myself from Belgium

Willy

[carthage]

Any news

Hi Willy,

Can you up-date us on your progress .
How long do you think before we get our hands on your new gadget?
Willy which part of the world are you from?
Good luck and best regards.
A.K

[Willy Bayot]

Geo,

I already got good results from surveys with my latest prototype (the one whose design is exactly the same as the one we have started the pre-production).
Actually, I have made one survey yesterday on our archaeological digging field. Here it is.

Now, we need to integrate this board system inside a proper box, professionally build sensors and test the final assembly.

Willy

[carthage]

Hi there.
I have been following your great progress and hoping you will sell your invention as a complete detector ready for use, because some people like me do not have the know-how (Electronic - assembly to make a detector). And since you are going that route I am interested on buying one.
Good luck, and I am sure your will not have trouble on finding clients for your final product.
Regards

[Geo]

Hello Willy.
I am waiting for your results with photos of the complex Mag.
Regards

[Willy Bayot]

PPM boards

We have received the first batch of bare gold-plated boards from the manufacturer (see picture in attachment). We'll now assemble one system by hand to test its operation and its integration in the box.
Willy